Books and Authors - Current Affairs for April, 2017

Books and Authors Current Affairs for April, 2017

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The theme of this book is the historical development of railways in India.

The book is divided into chapters dealing with different periods of development in chronological order.

It builds its foundations from periods prior to 1853, when the first commercial passenger railway was inaugurated.

The authors wanted to create a cross between an academic book and a coffee table book.

The result is a narrative built around a series of anecdotes of railway history. The book manages to convey considerable amounts of information in a conversational manner.

The story begins with the early plans for building railways in the Indian sub-continent in the 1830s, continues with the debates in the 1840s and the advent of the railways in the 1850s and 1860s.

The final chapter, which covers the period of consolidation and change during the 1870s onwards, is the most absorbing.

The last chapter covers the period from the beginning of the 20th century until independence. The book is perhaps best characterised as Indian Railway History - An anecdotal version.

Indian Railways: Know More

Headquarters: New Delhi

Number of employees: 1,331,000

Founded: 16 April 1853

Revenue: 1.683 trillion INR (US$25 billion, 2015–2016)

Chief Subsidiary: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation

Parent organization: Ministry of Railways

Chronology of events

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari has received the first copy of the Book titled ‘Hope in a challenged democracy; An Indian narrative’ authored by Shri Ashwini Kumar, from the former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh.

Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, on 10 April 2017 released a book titled Gandhi in Champaran authored by noted writer Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar at National Mahatma Gandhi Museum in New Delhi.